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Winter 2009 Reviews

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The Edison Light Bulb • Winter 2009 • Reviews

• ElectroCity

“Don’t let the power go to your head!”
Reviewed by John W. & Jarrett W., 5th gr.
electrocity.jpgElectroCity (www.electrocity.com) is a fun educational game about economy where you are the mayor of a town in New Zealand. You can raise or lower the taxes to suit the population of your town. As the mayor, you have the power to buy farms, tidal plants to harness wave energy and even nuclear plants. The best thing about the game is trying to get enough money, protect the environment, build your electricity supply and keep your citizens happy at the same time. The only bad thing about the game is that it can be very difficult to keep your citizens happy while keeping taxes high enough to build up your community. This game would be fun for almost anybody over the second grade. Both George Washington and Barack Obama played this game before they were President and gave it 5 stars. Try it for yourself and maybe you’ll be a President someday too.

• Warriors

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These are the clans. I know we said that there were only four clans, but Starclan is the clan of deceased ancestors of the four warrior clans who guide and advise the cats.
A series by Erin Hunter
Reviewed by Zoe W., 5th, and Dani W., 4th

Do you like cats? Do you like warriors? Then you’ll like the Warrior Cats! You will especially like it if you like to read. Follow the four warrior clans as they work together and apart to solve the troubles that are thrown their way.

There are three different sections of the Warriors series: Warriors, Warriors: The New Prophecy, and Warriors: Power of Three. The three different sections all focus on different cats. The books in the series are...

Warriors (Original Series)
  1. Into the Wild
  2. Fire and Ice
  3. Forest of Secrets
  4. Rising Storm
  5. A Dangerous Path
  6. The Darkest Hour
 Warriors: The New Prophecy
  1. Midnight
  2. Moonrise
  3. Dawn
  4. Starlight
  5. Twilight
  6. Sunset
 Warriors: Power of Three
  1. The Sight
  2. Dark River
  3. Outcast
  4. Eclipse
  5. Long Shadows
to be continued...

• The Clone Wars

clonewarsas.jpgReviewed by Aaron S., 4th grade
The Clone Wars is the war that happens after episode 2 and before episode 3 of Star Wars.
The war is between the Separatists (the droids) and the Republic Army (the clones). There are 4 main commanders, a few captains and a lot of lieutenents. Gree, Cody, Bly, and Fox are the 4 main commanders. The most popular captain is Rex.
Following is what happens in the Blue Shadow Virus episode. It’s one of many episodes of the Clone Wars. For more Clone Wars fun go to: cartoonnetwork.com/clonewars or www.starwars.com

Blue Shadow Virus
Jar Jar Binks and Padmé land on Naboo, in the midst of a crisis on the planet. The Naboo security guards have found a commander droid right outside the city near the swamps. C3PO (the protocol droid) tries to convince the commander droid that he is in the Separatist cruiser out in space, but then clumsy Jar Jar Binks knocks over all the racks of droid parts trying to eat a beetle from the west swamps of Naboo. So Padmé and Jar Jar Binks go to the swamps to look for a secret lab. When they don’t return for 2 days, the Jedi, Obi-Wan and Anakin, go to rescue Padmé and Jar Jar, but they find out Padmé and Jar Jar Binks have been captured by the evil Dr. Nuvo. So, the Jedi order a rescue mission, but before they go, they find out Dr. Nuvo’s evil plan to release Blue Shadow Virus into the galaxy. Blue Shadow Virus is a plague that thrives in water and air (Dr. Nuvo modified it to thrive in air). The Jedi sky dive from their gunship into the lab to rescue Padmé, but Anakin gets into trouble. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan takes bomb troops to disable the Blue Shadow Virus bombs.
They disable the last bomb just in time. But TH5, Dr. Nuvo's robot helper, had taken one of the last cartridges of Blue Shadow Virus to the bomb room to release the virus cartridge in a bomb and it worked! So TH5 goes to tell the droid squad to spread the Virus by opening the top hatch of an air ventilation shaft. Meanwhile, the clone squad had to retreat to the safe room but, unfortunately they couldn’t make it in time. Some of the Virus got in! Clone Commander Rex figured this out when some of the clones started coughing. While Padmé and Jar Jar got stuck in the virus room in their respirator suits, Anakin and Obi-Wan were loading Dr. Nuvo onto the Separatist shuttle to take him back to the capital.
TO BE CONTINUED...